2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series

2018 MCC Tri-nation series was a cricket tournament that was held on 29 July 2018 at Lord's in England.[1] The series featured Nepal, Netherlands and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), with the matches played as Twenty20 fixtures.[2] The third fixture, between Nepal and the Netherlands, was given full Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the International Cricket Council (ICC).[3]

2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series
Date	29 July 2018
Location	England
Result	Nepal and  Netherlands shared the series
Teams MCC    Nepal  Netherlands Captains Mahela Jayawardene Paras Khadka Pieter Seelaar Most runs Varun Chopra (27) Subash Khakurel (16) Tobias Visée (69) Most wickets Mark Watt (1) Alasdair Evans (1) Daniel Douthwaite (1) Matt Coles (1) Sompal Kami (3) Fred Klaassen (1) Michael Rippon (1)

Rain affected all three matches. The first two fixtures were both reduced to six overs per side.[4] In the third and final match, only 16.4 overs of play was possible, with the game ending in a no result.[5] Nepal and the Netherlands shared the series.[6]

Squads

MCC[7]	Nepal[8]	Netherlands[9]
Mahela Jayawardene (c) Kashif Ali Ian Bell Dylan Budge Varun Chopra Matt Coles Nick Compton Daniel Douthwaite Alasdair Evans James Foster (wk) Dominic Manthorpe Peter Moor Ben Sears Tom Smith Jonathan Trott Mark Watt	Paras Khadka (c) Dipendra Singh Airee Lalit Bhandari Shakti Gauchan Karan KC Sompal Kami Subash Khakurel (wk) Sandeep Lamichhane Gyanendra Malla Rohit Paudel Lalit Rajbanshi Basanta Regmi Anil Sah Aarif Sheikh Sharad Vesawkar	Pieter Seelaar (c) Wesley Barresi Ryan ten Doeschate Scott Edwards (wk) Clayton Floyd Fred Klaassen Bas de Leede Paul van Meekeren Max O'Dowd Hidde Overdijk Michael Rippon Shane Snater Antonius Staal Tobias Visée

Points table

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Nepal	2	1	0	0	1	3	+2.652
Netherlands	2	1	0	0	1	3	+1.667
MCC	2	0	2	0	0	0	–2.365

T20 series

1st T20

29 July 2018 10:00 Scorecard

Netherlands  72/3 (6 overs)	v	MCC 62/2 (6 overs)
Tobias Visée 58* (23) Mark Watt 1/9 (1 over)		Varun Chopra 27* (17) Fred Klaassen 1/12 (2 overs)

Netherlands won by 10 runs Lord's, London Umpires: Ben Debenham (Eng) and Rizwan Akram (Ned)

• Marylebone Cricket Club won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to six overs per side due to rain.
• Kashif Ali, Daniel Douthwaite (MCC), Hidde Overdijk and Antonius Staal (Ned) all made their T20 debuts.

2nd T20

29 July 2018 13:05 Scorecard

MCC 40/4 (6 overs)	v	Nepal 41/1 (4.4 overs)
Mahela Jayawardene 24* (16) Sompal Kami 2/8 (2 over)		Subash Khakurel 16* (15) Daniel Douthwaite 1/7 (1 over)

Nepal won by 9 wickets Lord's, London Umpires: Ben Debenham (Eng) and Allan Haggo (Sco)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to six overs per side due to rain.
• Tom Smith (MCC), Lalit Bhandari, Rohit Paudel, Anil Sah and Aarif Sheikh (Nep) all made their T20 debuts.

3rd T20

29 July 2018 16:20 Scorecard

Netherlands  174/4 (16.4 overs)	v	Nepal
Wesley Barresi 44 (24) Karan KC 1/17 (1.4 overs)

No result Lord's, London Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Allan Haggo (Sco)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain during Netherlands innings prevented any further play.
• This was a full T20I match.[3]
• Dipendra Singh Airee, Lalit Rajbanshi, Anil Sah, Aarif Sheikh (Nep) and Hidde Overdijk (Ned) all made their T20I debuts.
• Sandeep Lamichhane made his T20I debut for Nepal.[10] He had previously made his T20I debut for the ICC Rest of the World XI team in the Hurricane Relief T20 Challenge match in May 2018.[11]

References

1. "Nepal to face Netherlands and MCC in tri-series at Lord's". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
2. "Nepal & Netherlands to play MCC in tournament at Lord's". Lords. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
3. "Lord's set to play host to Nepal's first T20I since 2015". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
4. "Netherlands, Nepal share honours in rain-hit tri-series". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
5. "Netherlands' batting cuts loose but rain has the final say". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
6. "Weather prevents triangular tournament winner at Lord's". Lords. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
7. "Compton added to MCC squad for triangular tournament". Lords. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
8. "Nepal spinner Shakti Gauchan to retire after Netherlands tour". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
9. "Selecties Nederlands XI voor Lord's en Nepal". KNCB. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
10. "Nepal T20I Caps". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
11. "ICC World XI tour of England at London, May 31 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 31 May 2018.